On An Average Day
by John Kolvenbach

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120 mins Unit Set/Multiple Settings British

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THE STORY: The action is set in the kitchen of a small house in upstate New York, the home of the acutely lonely Robert.

The place is piled high with old newspapers, and something is rotting so horribly in the fridge that the simple task of extract

Press Reviews

"Four Stars!” —The Guardian (UK). “Kolvenbach reveals himself as a writer of real skills. His writing combines humor, sadness and the possibility of redemption in a manner that is all his own. We will be hearing more of him.” —The Telegraph (UK). “A riveting emotional duel.” —LA Weekly. “Provocative and chilling. A thought-provoking play.” —The Hollywood Reporter. ”If the New Testament were rewritten for modern times in language that included four-letter words and psychotic outbursts against the inscrutable will of God, the Good Book might read something like John Kolvenbach's ON AN AVERAGE DAY. Kolvenbach's characters are both complex and mythic, mixing innocence and world-weariness.“ —Cape Cod Times. ”An emotionally harrowing yet subtly compassionate work, John Kolvenbach's tragicomedy recalls the brutal family-dysfunction dramas of Sam Shepard coupled with the enigmatic subtext of Harold Pinter's works. Meticulously unpeeling the layers of emotional fog surrounding the estr"

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Publication

Publisher Methuen
Year 2008
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822222743
ISBN-10 0822222744
LCCN 2010283052
LCC MLCS 2011/40430 (P)

On An Average Day is a British play written by John Kolvenbach and published by Methuen in New York (2008).

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